feat: Support unstable sort operations

[TrevorBergeron]

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Fixes #<issue_number_goes_here> 🦕

[tswast]

Closing. Let's move this over to https://github.com/googleapis/google-cloud-python once googleapis/google-cloud-python#16493 merges.